The plot thickens, I now have two of these boxes running. One plugged into a Foundry switch and the other into a cheap 10/100 switching hub. The box connected to the hub says : eth0: Tigon3 [partno(BCM95704A6) rev 2003 PHY(5704)] (PCIX:100MHz:64-bit) 10/100/1000BaseT Ethernet tg3: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex. tg3: eth0: Flow control is on for TX and on for RX. The box hooked up to the foundry ( which is now nailed at 100-full ) says : eth0: Tigon3 [partno(BCM95704A6) rev 2003 PHY(5704)] (PCIX:100MHz:64-bit) 10/100/1000BaseT Ethernet tg3: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex. tg3: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX. Now I just checked on of my production boxes also hooked up to a foundry but using a slightly different Broadcom chip : eth0: Tigon3 [partno(BCM95703A30) rev 1002 PHY(5703)] (PCIX:100MHz:64-bit) 10/100/1000BaseT Ethernet tg3: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex. tg3: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX. So my only question now is this lack of flow control a tg3 driver problem, or a foundry switch problem? And how do I easily find out? Any suggestions from the group would be appreciated. >From Aug 24th : You know what, I did, and it's been ok since. However I still have the kernel message saying no flow control. I'm wondering if that's a problem, it would sound like one to me. On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 13:47 +0200, Mogens Kjaer wrote: > > Have you also disabled auto-negotiation on the switch? > > Mogens > -- > Mogens Kjaer, Carlsberg A/S, Computer Department > Gamle Carlsberg Vej 10, DK-2500 Valby, Denmark > Phone: +45 33 27 53 25, Fax: +45 33 27 47 08 > Email: mk@xxxxxx Homepage: http://www.crc.dk
